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#CovidIndia Am hearing many doctors telling patients to get plasma (blood from survivors) for their sick loved ones. This is NOT a useful therapy and should not be considered as

Many of us in are seeing something in healthcare we've never seen before and it's scary. While we need to communicate to the public and make them a stakeholder

Many are upset by the Ontario data on where infections are occurring, but remember the context. Toronto was not able to contact trace. Public health had to take a gamble

We should be finally starting to see the post effects of thanksgiving and the lockdown. But reminder of the roadmap to get out. -Testing - slots even opened today in

People really need to understand the dangers of country-to-country comparisons without understanding the biases and counfounding - and simply pointing to X is doing better than Y. While regional strategies

Let's review the history of Remdesivir1) Jan-Feb - COVID hits the world - remdesivir is an interesting compound that needs a home - gilead releases drug to a small number

Thread – Camp in Georgia. At the time epidemic was starting to rise – with daily numbers worse than Ontario near its peak. 238 trainees/staff arrive June 17-21. 363 kids

#idtips #idmeded day 4. Staph aureus bacteremia. You will deal with this in inpatient medicine / surgical / critical care / emergency specialty. Want to know the secret why ID

One dark trend of COVID is a lack of moderation. It's understandable, the world has never seen something like this. People are facing life altering social changes, and no end

This messaging starts needing to come across. @DFisman is spot on along with some of my colleague @DocDominik s arguement. This in Ontario is not the same disease across all

Ontario has 13000 in testing capacity through and many other labs have supported us up. Right now if there is a capacity to fill - we need to have every

At the end of a month of escalation - I can say I've seen compassion and determination in the front lines, and an exceptional amount of resilience in the people